By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A majority of the criminal charges filed this week in an animal abuse case have been withdrawn. More than 1,300 charges were filed Tuesday against Christie Dee Harr,...

By JEREMY SELLEW & JOSE NEGRON jsellew@yourmvi.com jnegron@yourmvi.com The effect of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) is beginning to take its toll on local sports after a wave of cancellations and suspensi...

By JOSE NEGRON & JOE SAGER jnegron@yourmvi.com The PIHL has postponed events, including the Varsity Penguins Cup championship games and Varsity Class B championship game, for at least the next two wee...

By Jeremy Tepper MVI Sports Over the course of Thursday morning and afternoon, the athletes competing in today’s PIAA 2A boys and girls swimming and diving championships went through the gauntlet of e...

Margaret E. Beckner Central City, Somerset County Margaret E. Beckner, 77, of Central City, Somerset County, passed away peacefully Wednesday, March 11, 2020, at In Touch Hospice, Somerset, surrounded...

Joseph A. Stanish Fayette City Joseph A. Stanish, 87, of Fayette City, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 12, 2020, in his home. A son of the late Joseph W. and Anne Shimko Stanish, he was bo...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Annual high school spring musicals are always a special time, allowing students to display their talents while signifying the end of the school year is neari...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Area Revitalization Corp. and the city police department will team up to raise money to outfit all officers with bulletproof vests. Out of the dep...

By ERIC SEIVERLING AND JEFF STITT eseiverling@yourmvi.comjstitt@yourmvi.com With the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus on the minds of people across the globe and with the World Health Organization decla...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Little Theater will mark Friday the 13th with the opening of a mystery/thriller play written by Louise Fletcher. The theater’s production of “Nightwatch” pr...

By the MVI Monessen firefighters spent nearly three hours at the scene of a fire in a vacant house early Wednesday. According to Municipal Fire Chief Delmar Hepple, firefighters battled the fire at 62...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com In a show of solidarity 75 to 80 members of the Belle Vernon Area Education Association lined the sidewalks around the Belle Vernon Area Administration Building...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com It took longer than expected, but former Monessen city controller Wayne Vlasic is now a certified district judge. Vlasic, elected judge in November’s general...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com In a move Charleroi officials claim is way overdue, the Authority of the Borough of Charleroi will soon help the borough financially with the maintenance of sewer li...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com You might see one or two fish — maybe a red one and a blue one; a cat wearing a hat who’s hanging out with two blue-haired creatures that can only be described as thin...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Survive and advance. That’s the name of the game this time of year. And the Thomas Jefferson girls basketball team knows that from experience. The Jaguars found a wa...

By JEREMY TEPPER MVI Sports South Allegheny played catch-up throughout its PIAA Class 3A second-round game Wednesday at Armstrong High School in Kittanning. The Gladiators found themselves pressing to...

Richard Michael Carlson, 53, of Monongahela, died Sunday, March 8, 2020, at home. He was born Dec. 21, 1966, in Joliet, Ill., the son of Vaughn “Butch” and Linda Fultz Carlson of Monongahela. Rich was...

Nancy B. Lombardo, 81, of North Huntingdon, died March 10, 2020. She was born in McKeesport on Sept. 12, 1938 and is the daughter of the late Michael and Barbara Johovic Bernick. Nancy retired as a cu...

Phyllis Pro Varrone, 80, of North Charleroi, passed away on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Born Sept. 14, 1939, she was the daughter of the late William and Palma Pro. She was Catholic by faith and was a ...